“Summon the children just before you mix the martini. Announce to them that it is now grownup’s hour—and they are to pursue their play elsewhere. The martini hour is for those are going to drink martinis.”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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